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I. KAUPMAN. TAG FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 12, 1908.

915,357. v Patented Mar. 16, 1909.

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TAG-FASTENER.

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` Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 16, 1909.

Application led December l2, 1908. Serial No. l67,1ii0.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRviNG KAUFMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have iiivented certain new and useful Improvements in Tag-Fasteners, of which-the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fastener devices and more particularly to that class of fasteners used to secure a tag or ticket to textile fabrics and other articles of merchandise which have written upon them the numbers, cost and selling prices, and like memoranda relating to the article to which the tag or tickets are attached.

lt is obvious that the fastener can also be very effectively used for the fastening together of other articles, such as sheets of paper and the like, and has for its object the production of a fastener cheap to nianufacture, simple in operation and which may be quickly applied and easily removed, and when applied becomes securely affixed to the article or articles to which it is attached.

With the foregoing objects in view, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In, the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevationof the invention as applied to a ticket secured on a fabric 5 Fig. 2, is asimilar view of the reverse side thereof; Fig. 3 is a view of a blank embodying my invention 5 Fig. 4, is a perspective view of the rial; Fig. 5, is a sectiona view on the line A-B of Fig. 1, and Fig. 6, is a view similar to Fig. 3 of a modified form.

My improved fastener is preferably formed from a single piece of sheet metal and formed to the required shape as shown in Fig. 3, in which A indicates the body art preferably formed with two disk shaped) ends 1 and 2, and havinfr an integral constricted portion 3 joining the disks together. The disk 1 is formed with a convexo-c ncave face. 4, and the disk 2 with a concave' 5. The disk 2 is vprovided with an. integral pointed extension 6, the. object of which will be hereinafter explained. In Fig. 6, I have shown the disk 2 provided with:i the additional pointed extensions 7 and 8, the object of these additional" extensions being to enable the fastener -to be more securely fas- Ainvention before being applied to the mate- .onveX- concavity v tened to the article or articles to which it is attached.

For the purpose of illustrating the use of the fastener, I have shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a fab ric B inserted between the flap ends 9 and 10 respectively, of a tag or ticket C, and se cured thereto by the use of my fastener, which operates as follows: The disk 2 of the fastener A is bent over the disk l, with the concavity 5 o positely disposed' to the con- Vex face 4 of t e disk 1, with the pointed eritension 6 bent downwardly. The ticket or other articleto he secured is inserted between the disks 1 and 2, and they are then pressed together with the ointed extension 6 inserted through the tic et and fabric, the extension 6 is then bent inwardly and under thev coiicavity 11 of the convexe-concave disk i, the point being housed therein. In this manner the ticket and fabric 'are securely held together by reason of the convex face 4 forcing the ticket and fabric into the concavity 5, thereby securely holding them in frictional contact between the disks.

In the drawing I have shown the convex face 4 and the concavity 5 of the saine dimensions, it is understood that either one may be of greater or less dimensions than the other, allowance being inadefor thethicky ness or thinness, as the case may be, of the article upon which the fastener may be desired to be used, with the view. of obtaining best possible result.

Slight changes and alterations might beiA resorted to in the form and arrangement of the several parts herein described, without departing from the spirit and'scope of my invention, hence I do not desire to iinit myself 0 the exact construction as herein set forth,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. The combination in a fastener of the. character described, comprising a body-*part having two disk shaped ends, and a enral constriction connecting the ends, one ofthe said disks being provided with a conveirei'. concave face, the other with a concav-con bent at the point of constriction with the convex face of one disk oppositely "disposed to the concave recess/of Ythe other, a pointed extension provided on the concavo-eolnvex` disk, bent downwardly approximately, at

vex recess therein, the said body pa rt being l right angles thereto, the said disks adapted to be pressed together with the article t0 be attached interposed therein between the Con- Vex face of one disk and the concave recess of the op )ositely disposed disk. with the said pointer extension extended thi-nigh the sindA ,having two disk shaped ends, und :1 central constriction connect-ingr the ends, one oi' the siiid disks being provided with s, eonvexoconcave hice, the other with :i concave-convex recess therein, the seid body part heilig lient' at the point oi' constriction with the convex hice of one disk oppositely disposed i Ipointed extension extended through to the concave recess of the other, a pointed extension provided on the. concavo-convex disk, henrdownwardly' fpgro'ximately at right angles thereto, the sai he pressed together with the article to be attnelicd interposed therein between the con- YVver; ffice of one disk and the concave recess of the oppositeliv disposed disk, With the said the said article., and bent under the concave side of the disk oppositely disposed to that on which the said extension is provided, and housed within the sit-id cont-.tive side, substantially :is described.

Iiitestiiuony whereof I affix my signature in presence oil' two Witnesses.

iRvING KAU'FMAN. Witnesses:

E. WAL'ioN BREWINGTON, Fmowxv Ivi. ALLEN.

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